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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Kim van Wyk; Sheena O'Connell
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By: Kim van Wyk & Sheena O'Connell Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/news/closing/ The official wrap up of the conference. Room: Video Room 1 Scheduled start: 2021-10-08 18:15:00 Sponsors: Gold: SPAN Digital: https://spandigital.com/ Takealot: http://takealot.com/ Andela: https://www.andela.com/ Silver: Python Software Foundation: https://www.python.org/psf/membership OfferZen: https://www.offerzen.com/ Patron: Thinkst Canary: https://canary.tools/ Afrolabs:...
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By: Kim van Wyk & Sheena O'Connell Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/news/closing/ The official wrap up of the conference. Room: Video Room 1 Scheduled start: 2021-10-08 18:15:00 Sponsors: Gold: SPAN Digital: https://spandigital.com/ Takealot: http://takealot.com/ Andela: https://www.andela.com/ Silver: Python Software Foundation: https://www.python.org/psf/membership OfferZen: https://www.offerzen.com/ Patron: Thinkst Canary: https://canary.tools/ Afrolabs:...
Topics: Youtube, video, Entertainment
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Sheena O'Connel; Kim van Wyk
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By: Sheena O'Connel & Kim van Wyk Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/news/welcome/ The official start of PyCon ZA 2021. Reminders of how the conference will be run, where to find the talks and how to asks questions and other information for attendees. Room: Video Room 1 Scheduled start: 2021-10-07 12:00:00 Sponsors: Gold: SPAN Digital: https://spandigital.com/ Takealot: http://takealot.com/ Andela: https://www.andela.com/ Silver: Python Software Foundation:...
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By: Sheena O'Connel & Kim van Wyk Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/news/welcome/ The official start of PyCon ZA 2021. Reminders of how the conference will be run, where to find the talks and how to asks questions and other information for attendees. Room: Video Room 1 Scheduled start: 2021-10-06 12:00:00 Sponsors: Gold: SPAN Digital: https://spandigital.com/ Takealot: http://takealot.com/ Andela: https://www.andela.com/ Silver: Python Software Foundation:...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Kim van Wyk; Sheena O'Connell
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By: Kim van Wyk & Sheena O'Connell Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/news/day-2-welcome/ Announcements and news at the start of the second day of PyConZA 2021. Room: Video Room 1 Scheduled start: 2021-10-08 11:30:00 Sponsors: Gold: SPAN Digital: https://spandigital.com/ Takealot: http://takealot.com/ Andela: https://www.andela.com/ Silver: Python Software Foundation: https://www.python.org/psf/membership OfferZen: https://www.offerzen.com/ Patron: Thinkst Canary:...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Agnes Muthoni
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By: Agnes Muthoni Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/41-the-future-of-work/ The way the world works is changing and Andela’s vision of the future of work from when we were founded is becoming a more obvious reality. Sponsor talk by Andela. Room: Video Room 1 Scheduled start: 2021-10-08 15:15:00 Sponsors: Gold: Andela: https://www.andela.com/
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Various speakers
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By: Various speakers Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/lightning-talks/ Lightning talks are a space to give a short (strictly less than 5 minutes) talk to the whole conference. They're often funny, slightly strange, or informative -- and they're a great way to give a first talk at a conference. * Nicholas De Kock: "autoESDA - a library for automated Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis" * Adrianna Pińska: "Structural pattern matching: not just a switch...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Sheena O'Connel; Kim van Wyk
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By: Sheena O'Connel & Kim van Wyk Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://za.pycon.org/talks/lightning-talks/ The Friday lightning Talk session, which replaced the closing keynote after the speaker had to pull out on short notice. * Bruce Merry: "Infinitely fast event loops" * Lance Williams: "The Fun and Interesting Challenges of Controlling and Monitoring a Radio Telescope" * Kim van Wyk: "HTMX - AJAXy stuff for little effort" * Dirk Uys: "Visualizing the...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Christopher Jones
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By: Christopher Jones Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/21-efficient-data-handling-techniques-in-python-for-oracle-database/ The Python cx_Oracle interface for Oracle Database is used by a large number of Python applications across a wide range of industries. One common use case is data transfers. This session is full of Jupyter demos showing how to use cx_Oracle features for efficient data loading and access. See the benefits of array fetching, batch loading, and how to...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Omar Sanseviero
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By: Omar Sanseviero Event: PyConZA 2021 Url: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/37-building-machine-learning-demos-with-python/ About: How can you show what a Machine Learning model does once it's trained? In this talk, you're going to learn how to create Machine Learning apps and demos using Streamlit and Gradio, Python libraries for this purpose. Additionally, you'll see how to share them with the rest of the Open Source ecosystem. Learning to create graphic interfaces for models is extremely...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Johan Beyers
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By: Johan Beyers Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/40-retries-and-circuitbreakers-in-takealot-microservices/ Sponsored talk by: Takealot At Takealot, we work with Python-based microservices. There are many moving parts and some services may be down at any time. To ensure that everything still works, we need to build in mechanisms to handle failure when requesting data from an upstream service. We developed some patterns using retries and circuit breakers to make sure that...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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David Campey
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By: David Campey Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/19-the-loop-of-joy-helping-kids-and-grown-ups-enjoy-code-adventures/ The loop of joy: Ooh, I have an idea… struggle… it works! In my work at CoderDojo, I realised this is what we are aiming at helping kids discover (and also helps grown-ups too!). This talk will cover: Starter pathways to crank the creative joy engine in young learners The MIT Media Lab “Life-long Kindergarten” 4P’s: Passion, Peers, Projects and...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Eugenio Andrieu
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By: Eugenio Andrieu Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/18-introducing-pipservices-a-new-open-source-toolkit-for-enterprise-level-microservice-creation/ PIP.Services (https://www.pipservices.org/ ) is an open-source toolkit launched to the market by Enterprise Innovation Consulting LLC. This toolkit allows developers to create microservices using a cross-language, cross-platform architecture. It is currently available in six languages (Python, Golang, Node.js, Dart, .NET,...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Kaj Arnö
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By: Kaj Arnö Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/30-python-mariadb-a-match/ Preamble: A happy rant by a Python developer about the feeling of coming back home to programming after decades in management, and seeing 90 % of all pain points of programming being solved. How Python contributes to the mental sanity of an incurable geek. Main content: When is MariaDB Server the right choice for persistence of data in Python? Or, to split it: - why is picking a database sexy, to...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Richard Landers
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By: Richard Landers Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/25-learning-to-speak-a-common-language-with-bdd-and-pickled-cucumbers/ This talk is a real-world account of how our team implemented BDD (Behavior-driven development) in a new platform built in Python and what we have managed to learn thus far. What this talk will cover: - our decision to use BDD - implementation with Gherkin and Python - the benefits of a shared context - going through changes and how we left BDD...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Hayden Wilson
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By: Hayden Wilson Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/34-developing-feasible-scenarios-for-bioenergy-production-in-south-africa-with-python/ BioEnergy has been a hot topic for some time, however there are a lot of unknowns regarding costs of Sourcing and Processing Biomass, that prevent its wider adoption. The team behind the BioEnergy Atlas for South Africa have developed a methodology and toolset that address a number of these unknowns, allowing for modeled scenarios for...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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John Ouellette
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By: John Ouellette Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/20-getting-to-intermediate/ Hello. My intended talk will be about pursuing an intermediate skill level with Python. My audience will be beginner pythonistas. They will leave feeling that an intermediate level of python does not have to be an obscure/secretive journey and will be excited to continue their Python journey. The talk is born out my attempt to broaden and deepening my Python skills a few years ago and...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Anele Makhaba; Mpho Mphego
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By: Anele Makhaba & Mpho Mphego Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/14-building-a-self-watering-plant-using-micropython-on-a-wifi-enabled-arduino-esp8266/ Having attended a make event earlier this year run by OfferZen and Investec, in the event we built a self-watering plant using a WiFi-enabled Arduino ESP8266. The code and implementation were all in C and myself being accustomed to Python. I decided to migrate the Arduino project into MicroPython. This is a basic...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Jade Abbott
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By: Jade Abbott Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/15-you-dont-need-ai-you-need-to-know-what-your-data-is/ 93% of data science projects never make it into production (MIT Sloan Management Review). Many of us in the field of AI feel the impact of this - the sheer futility of all our efforts. First we're going to talk about how we ended up in this mess: Spoiler Alert: We were misled. Next, we're going to figure out how to get OUT of it. It's time to put down those neural...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Kendall Nelson
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By: Kendall Nelson Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://za.pycon.org/talks/27-fishfingers-and-custard-an-openstack-and-k8s-story/ OpenStack and k8s are often pitted against one another as if they are incompatible and you have to choose between them which simply isn’t true. Not only that, there are numerous use cases where operators run Kubernetes on top of OpenStack, they run Kubernetes supplemented with OpenStack services, or they run a containerized OpenStack. In this talk, attendees will learn...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Radical Rakhman Wahid
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By: Radical Rakhman Wahid Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/35-optimize-your-database-operations-with-asynchronous-processing/ The bottleneck of a program can be caused by many reasons like bad data structure/logic/algorithm implementation, network connection, I/O bound operations, processor, etc. Database operations is kind of I/O bound operation which means, when it comes to the DB query program will waiting the result from another separate process. If the bottleneck is...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Kalyan Prasad
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By: Kalyan Prasad Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/42-neural-prophet-a-powerful-ai-framework-for-time-series-models/ Neural Prophet, a new framework that extends on the original prophet framework, addresses pain points such as scale, customization and extensibility.it incorporates traditional statistical and neural network models for time series modeling, used in forecasting and anomaly detection. This is heavily inspired by Prophet, which is the popular forecasting tool...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
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By: Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/1-shopyo-your-mega-machine-for-flask/ About This talk presents Shopyo. A framework to help Flask users get started quickly with a great architecture and features never seen before in the Flask world. It allows Flask people to have Django powers, and beyond. It allows the use of apps/modules with the addition of a concept called box. It also supports some Django commands like collectstatic. It comes with tests...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Sheena O'Connell
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By: Sheena O'Connell Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/24-django-rest-framework-3-redux/ Django Rest Framework lets you rapidly create well behaved, increadibly consistent, REST api endpoints on your Django app. It's pretty great and its saved me personally a lot of time. A very common thing to do is take your Django app and treat that as a backend to a modern frontend built in something like Vue, React, Angular or one of their many many competitors. Now each of these...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Sonal Sannigrahi
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By: Sonal Sannigrahi Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://za.pycon.org/talks/16-moving-in-sync-self-supervised-learning-of-n-human-interactions/ When watching a tv show or movie, we are easily able to detect which interactions are taking place on screen and between whom. However this is not trivial for computers and remains to be a challenging task as it involves both tracking humans as well as learning the semantics of the interaction taking place. This is an important problem in computer vision...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Gajendra Deshpande
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By: Gajendra Deshpande Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/5-build-your-first-cyber-forensic-application-using-python/ A recent study by CheckPoint Research has recorded over 1,50,000 cyber-attacks every week during the COVID-19 pandemic. There has been an increase of 30% in cyber-attacks compared to previous weeks. The pandemic has been the main reason for job loss and pay cuts of people and has led to an increase in cybercrimes. Examples of cyber-attacks include phishing,...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Sheena O'Connell; Panelists (see below)
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By: Sheena O'Connell & Panelists (see below) Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/32-panel-discussion-educating-coders/ What does it take to effectively train a coder/developer? Well... it's complicated. There are a lot of opinions out there. This panel will include a few different voices. We'll have representation from industry, formal education and alt-education. Participants: Nhlanhla Lucky Nkosi is a Software Engineer in BBD’s dedicated Research and Development...
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Oct 25, 2021
10/21
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Kalyan Munjuluri; Karishma Babbar
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By: Kalyan Munjuluri & Karishma Babbar Event: PyConZA 2021 URL: https://za.pycon.org/talks/23-machine-learning-lifecycle-made-easy-with-mlflow/ ABSTRACT Beyond the usual concerns in software development, machine learning development comes with additional challenges. These include trying multiple algorithms and parameters to get the best results, tracking these runs for reproducibility, and moving the model to diverse deployment environments. This talk demonstrates the use of an open-source...
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